Merritt Wever
ActingAlso Known As
Meritt Wever, Merrit Wever, 메릿 웨버, 梅里特・維沃, مریت ویور
Biography
Merritt Carmen Wever (born August 11, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix crime mini-series Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013, for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018 and for the mini-series Unbelievable, she was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020. Wever has also had supporting roles in other television series, including Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), New Girl (2013), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016). She has also played supporting roles in such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Birdman (2014), and Marriage Story (2019), all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Birdman winning.
Movies
(32 total)
Into the Wild
as Lori
Marriage Story
as Cassie
Signs
as Tracey Abernathy
Michael Clayton
as Anna
Righteous Kill
as Rape Victim
Welcome to Marwen
as Roberta
Irreplaceable You
as Mindy
Greenberg
as Gina
Remember Sunday
as Lucy
The Messenger
as Lara
Something the Lord Made
as Mrs. Saxon
Charlie Says
as Karlene Faith
The Last Face
as Marlee
Memory
as Olivia
Tiny Furniture
as Frankie
Strike!
as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
Meadowland
as Kelly
Christy
as Joyce Salters
12 and Holding
as Debbie Poole
TV Shows
(22 total)
The Walking Dead
as Denise Cloyd
The Wire
as Prissy
Severance
as Gretchen George
NCIS
as Wendy Smith
New Girl
as Elizabeth
Unbelievable
as Detective Karen Duvall
Godless
as Mary Agnes
Law & Order
as Sunshine Porter
Law & Order
as Myra
Law & Order
as Jennifer Taylor
The Good Wife
as Aubrey Gardner
Robot Chicken
as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Hannah Price
The Gilded Age
as Monica O'Brien
Nurse Jackie
as Zoey Barkow
RUN
as Ruby
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Suzanne
Roar
as Elisa
Tiny Beautiful Things
as Frankie Pierce
Conviction
as Bridget Kellner